CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-33538
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable improper access control vulnerability exists in the iw_webs account settings functionality. A specially crafted user name entry can cause the overwrite of an existing user account password, resulting in remote shell access to the device as that user. An attacker can send commands while authenticated as a low privilege user to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• weidmueller ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-us firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-us firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware (<= 1.16.18)
• weidmueller ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wl-bl-ap-cl-us firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-bl-ap-cl-us firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-eu firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wl-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware (<= 1.11.10)
• weidmueller ie-wlt-vl-ap-br-cl-us firmware (<= 1.11.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026 Third Party Advisory